amaze

英語

詞源

源自中古英語 *amasen (「使迷惑、困惑」)，源自古英語 āmasian (「使迷惑，使驚奇」)，源自ā- (完成時前綴) + *masian (「使困惑」)，等同於a- +‎ maze。

發音

• (英國) 國際音標^(幫助): /əˈmeɪz/

• 音頻 (美國)：

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• 韻部：-eɪz

動詞

amaze (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 amazes，現在分詞 amazing，一般過去時及過去分詞 amazed)

1. (及物) 使感到驚奇、驚訝 （自16世紀）

   He was amazed when he found that the girl was a robot.

   他得知女孩是機器人的時候，吃了一驚。

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 12:23:

     And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?

     眾人都驚奇，說，這不是大衛的子孫麼。

   • 1759, Oliver Goldsmith, The Present State of Polite Learning

     Spain has long fallen from amazing Europe with her wit, to amusing them with the greatness of her Catholic credulity.

2. (不及物) 感到驚奇、驚訝
   • 1890, Bayard Taylor, Faust: A Tragedy:

     Eye is blinded, ear amazes.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

3. (棄用) 使神志不清 （13-17世紀）
4. (棄用) 使迷惑、困惑
   • Template:RQ:Shakespeare Venus and Adonis
5. (棄用) 恐慌，驚恐 （16-18世紀）
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd版, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     , New York Review Books 2001, p.261:

     [Fear] amazeth many men that are to speak or show themselves in public assemblies, or before some great personages […]

相關詞彙

• amazing
• amazement

名詞

amaze (不可數)

1. (現詩歌) 驚奇，驚訝 （自16世紀）
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:

     All in amaze he suddenly vp start / With sword in hand, and with the old man went [...].

   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[1]:

     Presently, however, as we stood in amaze, gazing at the marvellous sight, and wondering whence the rosy radiance flowed, a dread and beautiful thing happened.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 103:

     Shattuck looked at him in amaze.

   • 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1361:

     She took the proffered cheque and stared at it with puzzled amaze, dazed by her own behaviour.

約拉語

名詞

amaze

1. amize的另一種寫法

參考資料

• Jacob Poole (1867年)，William Barnes, 編， A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland，J. Russell Smith，ISBN 978-1436729291，第 22 頁